Obama launches effort to help minority men

President Barack Obama is obtaining commitments from foundations, businesses and community groups to help young minority men improve their employment opportunities and to intervene before some of them get sucked into the criminal justice system.

Mr Obama is launching the “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative Thursday, matching his State of the Union pledge to “help more young men of color ... stay on track and reach their full potential.”

The first black president has invited business, foundation and community leaders to the White House Thursday to announce the effort.

The unemployment rate last month for African-American men over the age of 20 was 12 percent, compared with 5.4 percent for white men. Hispanic men over the age of 20 faced an unemployment rate of 8.2 percent.

Mr Obama will also order his administration to examine programmes that work and to discard those that do not help improve the lives of minority men. The White House pointed to bipartisan initiatives already underway to change criminal justice practices and guidelines.

Fruit of political and economic freedom should reach every community
of the nation. It is duty of the society and community to pay attention to this very important problem. Good sharing by every member of the community in nations's progress is the barometer of a healthy nation. People should know that till sixties subordinate ethnic group were in neumerical majority in South Africa but under apartheid sufferings. Business houses, members of community and various foundations in USA
requires to give encouragement to Black Americans to participate healthily in their own as well as country's progress. Remember God's
tenet; everybody is created equal.